Polemicist, poet, feminist. ”Subject to Debate" columnist for The Nation. Author of numerous books including Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights and Learning to Drive: And Other Life Stories (now a major motion picture). She tweets at @kathapollitt.

Interview With Pollitt From The Nation

How do you think growing up with a feminist mother has affected [your daughter] Sophie's life?

You'll have to ask her! She is definitely one young woman who has no trouble combining a love of fashion with a sense of her rights and worth as a person.

This is the third compilation of columns you've released. Have you ever considered writing a book?

Funny you should ask! I'm finishing one now. It's a collection of personal essays [Learning to Drive: And Other Life Stories, to be published in fall 2007 by Random House]. You could call it a memoir in pieces. Two of the sections were published in The New Yorker, the rest is unpublished material. Stay tuned.

About

Katha Pollitt writes the award-winning column “Subject to Debate” for The Nation magazine. Her latest book is Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights; she is also the author of two books of poetry and several collections of essays. She lives in New York City.

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The Mind-Body Problem: Poems

"It’s awfully good to have such a great-hearted poet as Katha Pollitt take on mortality’s darkest themes. Again and again she finds a human-sized crack of light and squeezes us through with her.”—Kay Ryan, past Poet Laureate